Topic: Power BI
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Power BI has been on the market one year. My biggest concern, when the product was still in private beta, was the promise of monthly releases made by Microsoft. Today, I can say that the promise was real. I see a long road ahead, in terms of features Read more
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Microsoft Press released a free eBook you can already download , Introducing Microsoft Power BI , which I and Alberto Ferrari wrote in the last few months. Please note it is a very introductive book, don’t expect an inside-out. As we wrote in the introduction: Read more
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Microsoft recently released the Analyze in Excel feature, which allows you to connect an Excel pivot table to a data model published on Power BI. I think/hope that Microsoft will enhance this feature to extend its current limits. For example, it does Read more
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I wrote this blog post with Alberto Ferrari . A few days ago, during the Build conference, Microsoft announced the availability, although still in preview, of Power BI Embedded . In a few words, Power BI Embedded lets you embed Power BI reports in your Read more
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I wrote an article about Time Intelligence in Power BI Desktop to explain how to fix measures using DAX functions for time intelligence when you have a data model where the relationship uses surrogate keys. THe short description is that all the time intelligence Read more
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If you are using Power BI Desktop or Power Pivot in Excel 2016, you should learn when and how you can use GROUPBY instead of SUMMARIZE. The SUMMARIZE function is very powerful and internally very complex, so it’s easy to find scenarios where you get unexpected Read more
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In a couple of weeks, I will move to Australia for 3 weeks, visiting Melbourne and Sydney for a number of events and training. This is the list of topics in public events you can attend (with link to registration pages – remember that SQL Saturday conferences Read more
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I recently wrote an article about how to Create Static Tables in DAX Using the DATATABLE Function . Such a new DAX feature (the DATATABLE function) will be likely used in the upcoming Analysis Services Tabular 2016, but it is not used neither in Power Read more
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The 2015 has been an amazing year for Power BI. One year ago, I was commenting on this blog the public preview of Power BI dashboards. A few days ago, Microsoft released the December update of Power BI Desktop and several updates of the Power BI service. Read more
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Last week Amir Netz presented in the Power BI blog a detailed introduction to the Synoptic Panel written by Daniele Perilli. This component won Power BI best visual contest in October, but since then we received many feedback and Daniele worked on it Read more